29 Aug – 02 Sep 2012 Festival of New Cinema, Digital Culture & Art Manchester & across the North West andfestival.org.uk Exhibitions
Festival of New Cinema, Digital Culture and Art This summer, Abandon Normal Devices invites you to experience a festival that highlights the complexities, gradations and anomalies encountered when we examine success as an ideal. AND 2012 is as much about work evolving over time, artists experimenting, and setting ambitious parameters, as it is about finished exhibitions. The experience of success can be fleeting and addictive. A strategy for survival; a money-spinner and a motivator: Rewards can have us going around in circles, travelling far but getting nowhere. We have become the status chasing generation; #winning is our meme. Through unusual strategies, the artists and filmmakers working in this year’s festival reveal alternative ways of being by offering rich counterpoints to perfection and undermining accepted logic. During a kaleidoscopic five days, unlikely monuments will be inflated, failed technological dreams will be resurrected and extinct industries will be salvaged and rebuilt. We share artworks, which hold a mirror to celebrity culture and shirk responsibility for the financial crash. Alongside these are a number of events that focus on self-improvement, from workshops to enhance your charisma, make-overs that better-prepare you for 2020 and teenagers on-site and online ready to solve all your problems. This, plus a cacophony of late-night actions and events make up our festival in 2012. We accept that, whenever we strive for something new, there is always the chance we will fail, but in a hyper-competitive Olympic year, AND’s attention is drawn to subtlety, humour, vulnerability and tenacity. Are you big enough to fail? Welcome to Abandon Normal Devices
Images: Top: The Humble Market, Bottom: It’s Cool, I’m Good.
It’s Cool, I’m Good The Humble Market The Humble Market is a fusion of theatre Contents and media art from the Brazil-UK theatre Stanya Kahn Zecora Ura and artists network Zecora Ura and new media artists Alastair Eilbeck and James Bailey. Cornerhouse Jorge Lopes Ramos, Zecora Ura is famous for its award winning Fri 22 Jun - Sun 16 Sep, Tue - Sat six hour production Hotel Medea. 12:00 - 20:00, Sun 12:00 - 18:00 Alastair Eilbeck, FREE, Drop in James Bailey and This, their latest production is inspired by the 03 Exhibitions rise of Brazil as an economic power. It toys 08 Public Realm AND is proud to present It’s Cool, Persis-Jade Maravala with the follies of mass consumerism, and I’m Good, the first UK solo exhibition uses the marketplace as a metaphor to ask of works by American artist Stanya Kahn. Exhibition: Trade Secrets 11 Screenings FACT (Foundation for Art & Technology) what do we really trade? What should be 16 Events Characterised by her signature blend Fri 22 Jun - Sun 29 Aug, Sun - Fri traded? And what cannot be bought? of dark comedy, visceral characters 12:00 - 18:00, Sat 11:00 - 18:00 The experience begins in Liverpool with 18 Talks & Workshops and reluctant optimism, Kahn’s exhibition FREE, Booking required a choreographed journey through the features a selection of recent drawings ‘marketplace’ of Galleries 1 & 2 at FACT. 20 Artists at Work and video works. The video works navigate Performance: We Play Expo, Avenham and Miller Parks, Preston It culminates with a promenading theatre 21 Online personal trauma, resilience and recovery. production that includes a live link-up Mundane interactions and casual jokes belie Fri 07 - Sun 09 Sep, 20:00 and 22:00 22 Venues & Booking Information FREE, Booking required between Belo Horizonte and Preston, a deeper consciousness of environmental one of the oldest market towns in the 24 Festival Timetable concerns and social and political alienation. North of England. As people are connected 27 Funders & Partners Whether made of flesh and blood, plastic across two different cultures and one vast or crumpled paper, her characters’ struggle body of water, you are invited to ponder for success (or mere survival) in a profoundly the question: how Brazilian will we all be absurd world is thrown into relief by an by 2020? underlying current of self-deprecating Credits: The Humble Market is a co-production between Abandon and occasionally fragile humour. Normal Devices, FACT and Derry - Londonderry - City of Culture 2013 and WE PLAY, commissioned by AND, FACT, WE PLAY Expo Credits: Co-commission between Abandon Normal Devices and Derry - Londonderry - City of Culture 2013, and London 2012 and Cornerhouse. Festival funded by Legacy Trust UK and Arts Council England.
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In the run-up to AND Festival we invite you Ask A Teenager to submit your problems to us online and Pigs Bladder Football Reproductive Futures Mammalian Diving we’ll pass them onto our panel of teens. John O’Shea Zoe Papadopoulou They’ll work on your problem with their Reflex highly adaptable brains and get back CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment) Environment) Number One First Street to you with their advice through our Thu 30 Aug - Fri 07 Sep, 12:00 - 17:00 Thu 30 Aug - Fri 07 Sep, 12:00 - 17:00 Sat 01 Sep website or during two live performances FREE, Drop in FREE, Drop in Live performances: 13:00 & 15:00 at First Street. The performances will be FREE, Booking required accompanied by video documentation Pigs Bladder Football launched one year We are all familiar with the stories about exhibited in First Street, featuring footage ago by setting out a remarkable challenge: what the stork brought and the birds Teenagers are famously complex from the teens’ deliberations. by August 2012, artist John O’Shea would and the bees – Papadopoulou asks how and emotionally unstable. Their limbic culture the world’s first bio-engineered these stories will evolve in an age of systems are on overdrive, their hormones Submit your problem to andfestival.org.uk football, grown from living cells. Since invitro fertilisation and stem cell research. are running amok, they’re prone to staying Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices. November 2011, O’Shea has been artist Looking towards the not-so-distant future up late, sleeping well past noon and taking in residence at the University of Liverpool’s when sperm and eggs can be created from crazy risks. It’s no accident. Scientists Panel Discussion Clinical Engineering Unit where he has anyone’s cells regardless of age, gender believe that their brains are particularly Number One First Street collaborated with Professor John Hunt or sexuality, this project investigates how alive, active and sensitive. Their behaviour Sat 01 Sep, 16:30 and Theun Van Veen to develop bespoke scientific and technological developments is an evolutionary feature: it’s how teens protocols for harvesting animal tissue. influence the historical stories and narratives define and distinguish themselves; it’s how Join us for a panel discussion with Through biological experimentation, rapid that explain where we come from. It aims to they get shit done. Teen brains are fast, Darren O’ Donnell, founder and director prototyping and an iterative design process, create the space for a broader discussion on risk-taking blobs that make creative and of Mammalian Diving Reflex, Neil Winterburn this work has been an exercise of precise artificial reproductive technologies (ART) and sometimes bizarre leaps and associations, who facilitated the project workshops tissue engineering. The final ball, which on how our perceptions of childbearing and giving them an adaptive edge. This is a and Gaby Jenks, AND Festival Manager. will be produced by replicating the same parenthood are headed for a radical change. scientific fact. We’ll also be joined by the young people techniques used to create artificial human who led on the project. Credits: Funded by the Wellcome Trust organs, encourages us to consider the that role life sciences will have in our daily lives both today and in the future. It also references the colliding worlds of human enhancement, the bio-technology industry and the global capitalisation of sport, which have become highly contested areas. How will changing the material properties of the ball affect the rules of our beautiful game? pigsbladderfootball.com
Artist’s Talk National Football Museum Sat 01 Sep, 14:00 - 16:00 FREE, Booking required
Credits: Pigs Bladder Football is a new commission for Abandon Normal Devices 2012. The work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and developed in collaboration with the University of Liverpool Clinical Engineering Unit.
Clearing United Holding Company UHC Project Live: Thu 30 Aug - Sun 02 Sep, 11:00 - 18:00 Public Debate: Sun 02 Sep, 12:00 FREE, Drop in Clearing is a new work by Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) that seeks to create a dialogue around the subject of higher arts education and the globalized trade in ‘knowledge capital’. The piece takes data from the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and the London Stock Exchange to create an animated digital display. During the installation, UHC will host a public debate on the value of higher education in the arts, with a panel of specially invited guests.
Credits: A new work by UHC commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices.
Images: This page: Top left: Pigs Bladder Football, Top right: Reproductive Futures, Bottom: Clearing. Opposite page: Ask a Teenager photo by: Chozin Tenzin. Pictured: Wendell Williams and Mike Gousvaris
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What have I done A Dream Came Museum Of Glitch to (de)serve this? Through Aesthetics Group Show Lanfranco Aceti Mark Amerika Blankspace Blankspace Online and Lionel Dobie Gallery Thu 30 Aug - Sun 16 Sep, Thu 30 Aug, 11:00 - 18:00 Thu 30 Aug - 02 Sep, 11:00 - 18:00 11:00 - 18:00 (closed Mon & Tue) FREE, Drop in FREE, Drop in FREE, Drop in A Dream Came Through by Lanfranco Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA) is What have I done to (de)serve this? Aceti questions the politics of exploitative the latest online work in Mark Amerika’s examines the perpetual disillusionment labour. In a durational performance collaborative series of transmedia narratives. of a generation of artists who are living half-naked ‘workers’ sign a contract MOGA tells the story of The Artist 2.0, an through the ongoing global financial crisis. of exploitation before being paid, quite online persona whose personal mythology Who is really to blame for this financial literally to do nothing, whilst fanning and body of digital artworks are rapidly turmoil? Is it the over-zealous drive of themselves for all to see. To some, being canonised into the annals of art corporate bankers, or the demand for this might seem like an ideal situation. history. The piece traces the life of this private property? Have failed EU countries To others, it could give rise to the artist and his ongoing commitment to exported a flailing institutional imperialism question of whether all labour is the ‘glitch aesthetics’ of the title. to the rest of the world? Are we here merely institutionalised enslavement. MOGA will feature a wide array of artworks because of the pursuit, or indeed failure, How successful is the real promise of including net art, video art, still images, of a particular notion of capitalist success? a minimum wage, of economic liberation, game design, stand-up comedy, sound Made up of contemporary works that within a ‘dream’ society? Or indeed, art and electronic literature, all of which explore the successes and failures of within the context of an art world event? have been intentionally corrupted by capitalism, this exhibition will function as digital manipulation. The project will a forum for the exploration of alternative also include a mock museum catalogue, economic systems. Including works from which is available as a free e-book or Lanfranco Aceti, Queer Technologies, as a print-on-demand edition. Jennifer Chan, Tom & Guy Schofield, Jan Peter Hammer and Micah Purnell. glitchmuseum.com
Credits: Curated by Omar Kholeif and Sarah Perks, Credits: MOGA is a new online commission by Abandon Normal produced in partnership with Blank Media Collective. Devices and is co-produced with the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. MOGA will be remixed at part of the Digital Aesthetics 3 Conference and Exhibition from 6 Oct 2012 - 5 Jan 2013 digital-aesthetic.tumblr.com
Images: This page: Top: What have I done to (de)serve this?, Middle: A Dream Came Through, Bottom: Blue Crystal Ball. Opposite page: Museum of Glitch Aesthetics
Blue Crystal Ball Group show Holden Gallery Thu 30 Aug - Thu 20 Sep, 11:00 - 18:00 FREE, Drop in Blue Crystal Ball is a collection of new film and video works that explores the ideals and values of the Olympic movement. Made by international, contemporary artists, the work fuses experimental film and video making practices, archive material, animation and virtual worlds. The artists speculate, like fortune tellers, on the rhetoric surrounding nation, unity and sport, whilst digging deeper into the ancient roots and future of the games. Featuring artists Kota Ezawa, Cao Fei, Yeondoo Jung, Kimsooja, Torsten Lauschmann, Susan Pui San Lok, Emily Wardill, Hiraki Sawa and Kyungwoo Chun.
Credits: Blue Crystal Ball is part of the Samsung Olympic Games Media Art Collection, commissioned by the International Olympic Committee and sponsored by Samsung.
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Mobile Republic: Digital Caravans London Fieldworks, Hellicar & Lewis, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Bureau A, Designers Republic and Julian Oliver 10 - 11 Aug, 12:00 - 20:00, Marina, Whitehaven, Cumbria 17 - 18 Aug, 12:00 - 20:00, Youthzone, Blackburn, Lancashire 30 Aug - 02 Sep, 12:00 - 20:00, First Street, Manchester 07 - 09 Sep, Avenham & Miller Parks, Preston, Lancashire FREE, Drop in Over the summer months AND will take to the road with Mobile Republic, a convoy of interactive caravans. The classic touring caravan is a symbol of the traditional British Images: Top: Empire Drive-In, Bottom left: summer holiday, but these caravans are Robocop, Bottom middle: not what they seem. Beneath their innocent Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, Bottom right: exteriors the five caravans have been Mad Max II. radically remodelled and re-imagined by artists, architects and activists.
When in situ the five commissioned Opening night Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Mad Max ii – Road Warrior (18) caravans will group together in a wagon Empire Drive-In Wed 29 Aug, 20:00 - 21:00 (with live soundtrack) Fri 31 Aug, 21:30 - 24:00 circle, creating a central ‘big-top’ social Jeff Stark & Todd FREE, Drop in Dir Brent Green/US 2010/71 mins £7, Booking required space designed by Bureau A that will Join us for a collection of energetic short Thu 30 Aug, 21:30 - 24:00 Dir George Miller/Aus 1981/95 mins feature an artist’s studio, performance Chandler £7, Booking required space and an indoor/outdoor cinema. films with improvised live soundtracks Join us in the post apocalyptic wasteland Q-Park, Hulme Street The cinema will feature the newly by local bands and musicians. Leonard and Mary meet in a car crash. for a night of gasoline guzzlers and bicycle Installation open Wed 29 Aug - Fri 31 Aug, commissioned short film End of the They fall instantly in love, and live happily shenanigans. 12:00 - 16:00 Road from London Fieldworks that looks ever after…until Mary gets sick. Desperate FREE, Drop in Robocop (18) The second part of George Miller’s trilogy at the travelling communities in Hull and Wed 29 Aug, 21:30 - 24:00 to save her, Leonard decides that if he builds has become a turbo charged cult myth. nomadic culture. The Centre for Genomic Empire Drive-In is a full-scale drive-in movie Dir Paul Verhoeven/US 1987/102 mins a house for Mary, it will heal her. Inspired In the Australian wasteland, cyncial drifter Gastronomy will be transforming one theatre made from wrecked cars, created £7, Booking required by the real actions of the eccentric Leonard Max (Mel Gibson) rediscovers a sliver of caravan into a Planetary Sculpture Spice by Brooklyn artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Wood, filmmaker Brent Green brings to his shattered humanity, when he helps Mix Super Computer, where you can Stark in collaboration with a dozen other In a dystopic, crime ridden Detroit, a newly life this love story like no other in his first transfered police officer is remade into an embattled colony of pioneers fight off create and taste, test and calculate artists and craftspeople. It is symbolic of the feature-length film. Shot entirely on the bandits who are after that most precious your own unique spice combination. once thriving drive-in industry in the United an indestructible cybernetic cop after full-scale town he built in his backyard, being dismembered by a gang of thugs of commodities: ‘guzzline’. With its final The award winning Julian Oliver introduces States. Today, only 381 drive-ins remain Green combines animation, stop-motion stirring images, Road Warrior transcends Whitehaven in an abandoned warehouse. Reborn as the Boarder Bumping caravan which active in the US, killed off by strip malls and and live-action in an ethereal opus to lovers its genre (whatever that may be: science will collect, map and use the telecomms 10 - 11 Aug condos more profitable than the drive-in RoboCop, he is programmed to serve and and tinkerers everywhere. protect the citizens of Detroit and eliminate fiction? Road movie? Western?) to become infrastructure to SMS passengers as they movie theatre experience. Originally built Preceded by the Empire Shorts programme something timeless. cross new borders, changing the ways in in San Jose over a two-week period, this the rampant crime in the city streets so that a massive citywide reconstruction (30mins). Estimated feature start time 22:00. Preceded by short films (45mins) and which we understand where we are. All of manifestation of Empire Drive-In is the this activity will be broadcast online from first time it has been seen in Europe. project can get under way. But once he special guest interventions from Tranarchy. has completed his task, he sets his sights Estimated feature start time 22:00. the media hub caravan created by artists During the day you will be able to move and technologists Helicar and Lewis. on the corruption inside Omni Consumer freely from car to car and experience the Products - the corporation that created him. Together, these bespoke artists’ sonic environments featuring work from commissions look at the colliding forces Roberto Carlos Lang (NY), Sxip Shirey Preceded by a screening of the short of nature, industry, extinction and a (NY), Resonance104.4fm (London), and film Detroit Lives. Estimated feature start world where future technologies can be Susie Honeyman (Mekons, Echo City, time 22:00. sustainable and responsive. With onboard Little Sparta, UK). artists ready to entertain you with food, The night sky will be lit by a specially film and fascinating ideas, Mobile Republic programmed series of film screenings and is coming very soon to a town near you. live soundtracks, including a slide show
Credits: Mobile Republic is commissioned by AND and funded of abandoned spaces by photographer by Arts Council England, London 2012 Festival, Legacy Trust Preston Tod Seelie and Empire Shorts, a collection UK , WE PLAY Expo, Copeland Community Fund, presented in partnership with Copeland Borough Council, Blackburn Youth 07 - 09 Sep of short films by artists who navigate Zone, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, ASK Property landscapes in lyrical and bold ways. From Developments and Octopus. the demolitions of cities to boats built from Blackburn debris, these reflections on contemporary 17 - 18 Aug ruin feature Gordon Matta Clark (USA) Blu (Italy) John Smith (UK): Martha Colburn (USA) Lee Kern (UK) Jem Cohen (USA) and Glory at Sea by Zeitlin/Court 13 (USA), Manchester the creators behind this year’s Sundance 30 Aug - 02 Sep Grand Jury Prize winner, Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Meme Junkyard: M-Blem: the AND specializes in a celebration Technoviking train project of live, interactive and misfit Wafaa Bilal HeHe (Heiko Hansen cinema. This year’s programme All Saints Square and Online and Helen Evans) is transmitted online and across Thu 30 Aug - Sun 02 Sep, 12:00 - 20:00 Museum of Science and Industry FREE, Drop in Manchester to karaoke bars, Wed 29 Aug - Sat 01 Sep, 18:00 - 21:00 Iraqi American artist Wafaa Bilal is known FREE, Booking required for participants only caravans and drive-ins, bringing internationally for his controversial online, The train project is an ongoing body of performative and interactive works. For you a collection of films and speculative investigation into the language his latest project Bilal continues this trend, and aesthetics of transport culture by artists first time features which look at making a traditional public square home to HeHe. They propose personal rail travel as a very different kind of monument: a giant, everything from wasted youth to a temporary, imaginary solution to question inflatable representation of Technoviking. our industrialised conscious in relation fame and the nature of happiness. Both the title of a video and the nickname to locomotion. of its Teutonic protaganist, Technoviking Expect small budget films with became a Youtube hit in 2007, accumulating The notion of personalised rail travel has big ideas alongside shameless tens of millions of views across the original been explored as an alternative to collective upload and the countless reposts, remixes, transportation since the 1930s. The failure mockbusters with a global twist. take-offs and fan films that followed. of this dream of a utopian infrastructure is reflected in Bruno Latour’s book Aramis Recreating Technoviking as an airfilled For booking information and or the Love of Technology, which describes avatar that will inflate and deflate according France’s ambitious attempt to develop prices see page 23. All screenings to the rate of hits the original video receives, a personal rapid transit system. Meme Junkyard asks us to consider what will start at the advertised times it means to ‘go viral’ and, be it a cat playing As the antithesis of high speed travel, the without adverts and trailers. piano or David After Dentist, what becomes M-Blem vehicle, inspired by AB Clayton’s of an overnight YouTube sensation months painting of the inaugural journey of the Certificates will be announced or years after the fact. Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830, on the AND Festival and will recreate a personal transport experience Credits: Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices. on the historic track within in the grounds Cornerhouse websites in August. Artist‘sTalk of the Museum of Science and Industry Cornerhouse Annexe in Manchester. In their participatory piece Sun 02 Sep, 14:00 - 16:00 HeHe invite some audience members to FREE, Booking required travel in M-Blem journeying through space and time to experience the past and future of local transportation networks (booking required). Starting from the original station building of the Manchester to Liverpool line, the lightweight, autonomous rail vehicle references the carriages of Clayton’s painting and the cultural iconography of Transport for Greater Manchester. Credits: M-Blem: the train project is a new co-commission by Abandon Normal Devices and The Arts Catalyst, in partnership Images: This page: with Ars Longa, The Region Ile de France and Futur en Seine. Left: Meme Junkyard, Right: M-Blem. Opposite page: Top: Indignados, Middle: All Divided Selves, Bottom: The Creator Indignados All Divided Selves The Creator Dir Tony Gatlif/FR 2011/88 mins/ Dir Luke Fowler/GB 2011/90 mins Dirs Al and Al/GB 2012/45 mins Wolof, Greek, French, Spanish, Cornerhouse Cornerhouse English with partial Eng ST Thu 30 Aug, 13:50 Thu 30 Aug, 15:50 Cornerhouse Nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, The Creator explores the legendary Thu 30 Aug, 17:45 artist Luke Fowler’s debut feature explores myth of the pioneer and maker of A.I. Tony Gatlif’s (Latcho Drom and Exils) the seminal Scottish psychiatrist R.D. (Artificial Intelligence) machines, Alan latest film is an activist docudrama Laing. The guru-like and charismatic Laing Turing. Combining Lynchian nightmare inspired by Stéphane Hessel’s bestselling became a household name following his with the prophetic themes of J.G. Ballard, essay Time for Outrage! The semi-fictional 1960 bestseller The Divided Self and his you will enter the surreal dream world of story is told through the experiences of frequent television appearances where Turing, who gave birth to the computer Betty, a young illegal migrant from Africa he willingly courted the fame borne out age, as his binary children embark upon a who scrapes by as she travels around of his radical views on mental illness. mystical odyssey to explore their creator’s Europe witnessing poverty and protests. This documentary film is both a gallery dream diaries and discover their origins and Indignados energetically intertwines footage installation and cinematic experience, and destiny in the universe. Contains scenes of Occupy and other protest movements echoes the conflicts within Laing himself of a sexual nature and optical effects. with dramatised scenes of her journey. against a backdrop of British cultural Visually arresting and backed by a typically change in the 60s and 70s. Fowler produces spirited and engrossing soundtrack from a dense, engaging and lyrical collage, Gatlif, this is a film for our troubling times. weaving archival material with his own filmic observations and a dynamic soundtrack of field recordings by Éric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alasdair Roberts.
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What is This Film Kid-Thing Bye Bye Blondie Piercing I plus Q&A AND Shorts. Called Love? Dir David Zellner/US 2012/83 mins Dir Virginie Despentes/FR BE CH 2012/ Dir Liu Jian/CN 2010/75 mins/ Programme 1 Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrell, 97 mins/French wEng ST Mandarin wEng ST Dir Mark Cousins/GB 2012/77 mins Fri 31 Aug, 13:00 Nathan Zellner, David Zellner Emmanuelle Béart, Béatrice Dalle, Cornerhouse Cornerhouse Cornerhouse Soko, Clara Ponsot, Pascal Greggory Sun 02 Sep, 16:20 Thu 30 Aug, 19:30 Sat 01 Sep, 16:10 Cornerhouse Independent animator, former painter and A passionate, poetic documentary about Ten year-old tearaway Annie spends her Sat 01 Sep, 20:40 first time director Liu Jian sold his apartment AND Shorts. the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico time making prank calls, shoplifting and Director and author Virginie Despentes to make Piercing I on his tablet computer, over three days, for £10, What is This Film Programme 2 hurling dough balls at passing cars, burst onto the scene with the controversial producing a surprise hit on the European Called Love begins as a film about the Sat 01 Sep, 12:00 making Bart Simpson seem like an angel Rape Me (Baise-moi) and has since become Film Festival circuit. Having moved to the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and in comparison. Devoid of any firm parental a tour de force in the French hardcore city to work, Zhang Xiaojun loses his job This years AND shorts include dramas, then, using Eisenstein’s ideas, it opens guidance (two male guardians hurl fireworks feminist movement with her publication because of the financial downturn and animations and unconventional approaches up to look at memory, landscape and the indoors and pass out over cheap beers), King Kong Theory, Despentes’ own candid things worsen when he is mistaken for a to filmmaking. Chosen from responses pleasures of walking. A deeply personal she wreaks destruction throughout the account of how she became notorious. thief. Strikingly different from the majority of to the festival’s annual open call for film that uses three visual dream sequences, neighbourhood. But her routine is broken She tones things down in this film, the recent Chinese filmmaking, Piercing I tells a submissions, we present a collection of and the music of PJ Harvey, Simon Fisher when she hears an old woman calling from tale of two lovers who look to rekindle darker yet compelling tale of contemporary filmmakers whose visions of the world are Turner, Johnny Cash and Bernard Hermann. the bottom of an abandoned well, having their romance despite a tumultuous past Chinese society and the drive for wealth in turn stoic, shocking and visually playful. The film draws from a range of filmmakers fallen and in need of help. Untrusting of as Sex Pistol-worshipping punk rockers. and success. Increasingly disenfranchised and writers (principally Chris Marker, For more info visit andfestival.org.uk the unseen stranger, little Annie’s actions A tender-hearted tale of punked out Xiaojun, and his friend Dahong, are but also Virginia Woolf, Frank O’Hara will have momentous consequences. lesbian love, starring Emmanuelle Béart convincing animated characters, attempting and others) but aims to touch on themes A hit at Sundance Film Festival. and Béatrice Dalle. Bye Bye Blondie to deal with their situation in a manner including where joy comes from, the is cinematically freewheeling and is worthy of the Coen Brothers. emotions involved with travel and emotionally sincere in its portrayal homecoming, and the nature of solitude. Images: This page: Top After this special screening of Piercing I, left: Kid-Thing, Top right: of a star-crossed couple struggling we are delighted to welcome director Piercing I, Bottom left: Bye to make it together for a second time. Bye Blondie, Bottom right: Liu Jian and producer Lynne Wang for AND Shorts. Opposite page: Top: What is This Film Called a Q&A session. Love?, Middle left: Tilva Ros, Middle right: Follow, Bottom: Credits: Supported by Confucius Institute and in association Come as You Are. with Chinese Film Forum UK.
Tilva Roš Follow Dir Nikola Ležaić/RS 2010/ Dir Tim Brunsden/GB 2012/50 mins 100 mins/Serbian wEng ST Scottee Marko Todorovic, Stefan Djordjevic, Cornerhouse Dunja Kovacevic Fri 31 Aug, 18:20 Cornerhouse Follow is a live and evolving documentary Sat 01 Sep, 14:00 that follows performance artist Scottee’s Tilva Roš means ‘red hill’ in Wallachian, obsession with a Twitter persona. Told over referring to the copper rich area surrounding four different episodes (each one responding the depressed mining town of Bor in Serbia. to live events), this film charts Scottee as Nikola Ležaić’s first time feature is a portrait he becomes consumed with the elusive of misguided youth on the brink of maturity Twitter persona of a young American woman trying to find a sense and purpose in life who goes by the moniker @SoDamnTrue. before they head to college. For fans of As her perversely moral and self-gratifying Larry Clark and slacker drama with indie diatribes emanate over numerous Twitter pop songs, this will be a sentimental hit. feeds, Scottee becomes devoted to the idea of gaining her attention, and with this, his sense of self becomes increasingly contorted. Will Scottee survive or will he be enveloped by the bewildering capitalist culture of trademarked catchphrases and the Hollywood spray tan? Only time will tell. This is a real time filmmaking experiment Come as You Are directed by Tim Brunsden (@mrjonesy) (Hasta la Vista) and starring Scottee (@ScotteeScottee). The journey began on 22 Jun and concludes Dir Geoffrey Einthoven/BE 2011/115mins/ on 1 Sep. followscottee.com Dutch, French, Eng, Spanish with Eng ST Cornerhouse Credits: Commissioned by FACT, LIverpool and Supported by Vision + Media, awarding funds from the national lottery. Fri 31 Aug, 15:30 Three young men in their early twenties go Post-screening discussion: on a road trip to lose their virginity. One is Mutant Cinema blind, one is confined to a wheelchair and Cornerhouse Annexe the third is completely paralysed. Under Fri 31 Aug, 19:30 the auspices of a wine tour they embark FREE, Entry with film screening ticket on a journey to Spain hoping to have their Informal post screening discussion first sexual experiences. Nothing will stop with Paulo Cirio, Tim Brunsden, Chris them. A funny and cringe-inducing film that Shepherd and Mark Amerika discussing falls somewhere between mainstream and filmic practices that experiment with arthouse, loosely inspired by the US-born narrative and form through cross media Brit advocate for disabled people’s sexuality, and internet platforms. Asta Philpot.
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Double Bill Mockbuster Double Bill The Man Who Saved Lady Terminator Cornerhouse Charlie’s Karaoke Bar the World (AKA Turkish Dir H. Tjut Djalil/ID 1989/82 mins/ Sun 02 Sep, 13:00 Sun 02 Sep, 20:00 - 24:00 Star Wars) Indonesian wEng St Innocence, naivity, curiosity and £5, on the door (no advance tickets) Meaner, trashier, sexier and more dangerous vulnerability are a few of the traits that Mockbusters are cheaper, cheesier, Dir Çetin İnanç/TR 1982/91 mins/ than the original, Lady Terminator is the make up the young protaganists in this straight-to-rental versions of well-known Turkish wEng St unofficial sequel to James Cameron’s double bill. These quiet compositions films. The Da Vinci Treasure, Transmorphers, Pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire, 1984 sci-fi Schwarzenegger flick. Instead from two French-speaking directors Alien Vs Hunter, Monster Shark… bargain two men crash onto a desert planet where of a robot from the future we have a evil remind us of the cinematic form as bins the world over are fit to bursting with they meet an old wizard and learn of a sorceress queen from the past who has well as the nature of childhood. these blatant attempts to steal a sliver superweapon that looks suspiciously like the kidnapped a student and heads off on a of mojo from the Hollywood machine. Death Star. With scenes stolen straight from murderous rampage. A brilliant, baffling In association with Optic Films we present George Lucas’ blockbuster space opera and work of cult cinema from Indonesia. Jouer Ponette two of these gaudy treasures with a global most of the score ‘borrowed’ from the work twist. Will you be able to distinguish them of John Williams, The Man Who Saved The Dir Jeanne Crépeau/CA 2007/94 mins/ from the real McCoy? World or Turkish Star Wars is the pinnacle French wEng ST of underground rip off cinema. A must for This minimalist documentary focuses on Star Wars fans. behind the scenes footage of the talented four-year-old, actress Victoire Thivisol, working on the classic French film Ponette (Dir Jacques Doillon, 1995). It is a rare insight into a director’s behaviour and the patience required to work with children on set. The footage is based on the original video rushes created during the 1995 shooting of the film. In 1996, Victoire was, for many, the surprise winner of the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
Nana Dir Valérie Massadian/FR 2011/68 mins/ French wEng ST Kelyna Lecomte, Alain Sabras, Marie Delmas Nana, the first film from director Valérie Massadian, is a quiet exploration of childhood in all its elusiveness. Anchored by the non-performance of Kelyna Lecomte, in the titular role, as a young girl left alone to fend for herself after her impatient mother (Marie Delmas) leaves the small cabin they occupy on the outskirts of her grandfather’s pig farm, and never returns. The film is intimate without being sentimental. Nana was awarded the prize for Best Debut at the Locarno Film Festival, and the refined lighting and clever compositions betray Massadian’s background as a photographer; she worked with Nan Goldin for a long time.
Images: This page: Top: Jouer Ponette, Bottom: Nana. Opposite page: Lady Terminator.
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Revolutionary in her radical inclusion Master/Slave trixxie carr: The Right through art, trixxie often seeks out people Invigilator System To Rule plus Party who aren’t necessarily experienced in drag, Jeremy Bailey Gorilla dance, acting or singing to participate in Sat 01 Sep, doors 22:00 / her numbers as well as her theatrical works, Cornerhouse and various performance begins 22:45 creating a shared learning experience as sites across the city £8, Booking required well as a shared stage experience. For Thu 30 Aug - Sat 01 Sep, 10:00 - 18:00 Featuring trixxie carr, Honey Mahogany Manchester, trixxie will be fusing alt-drag FREE, Book at Slave Docking Station (San Francisco), Jeremy Bailey with fashion, live music, riot-theatre and (Cornerhouse) (Toronto), Ultra Violet Violence, interactive new media. Using the master/slave model of The Volkov Commanders and Tranarchy Believing that everyone has the right to rule, communication, where one device or (Manchester). DJs to be announced. whether in the context of being awesome process has unidirectional control over one No one should have to fight for the right onstage, or leading revolutions in art and or more devices, famous new media artist to be awesome, yet ruling classes exist culture via artistic means to improve our Jeremy Bailey will demonstrate technology (royalty, government, capitalist and time on earth, is to her a personal choice, that allows him to be everywhere at corporate), sometimes because they are the success of which lies in action itself, once. This new and innovative system for revered and respected by their subjects the doing of the thing, and she invites all augmented identity and distributed presence (possibly power bottoms, ‘topping from of Manchester to RULE with her for AND will allow Jeremy to invigilate the entire the bottom’ as would be said in a BDSM Festival this year! AND festival (and beyond) from the safety community), and sometimes through violent of a protected control cockpit in Manchester, and oppressive regimes. Faux queen trixxie where he has taken up temporary residence. carr, a born-female drag queen orphan from Join us at the Slave Docking Station at San Francisco, examines the right of those the festival hub (Cornerhouse), and ask outside of the status quo ruling classes to our telepresent mastermind how best succeed within them, regardless of birthright to navigate your festival experience! through lineage, and instead by right of being. As in being. Here. Alive! The Slave Gang will be combining forces with trixxie carr and Co. at the Right to Rule party with a keynote performance on Sat 01 Sep.
Commissioned by FACT and Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
Monetised The Inventory Trouble At T’ Mill Machines By Steven Ounanian Peter Martin Islington Mill Other Means Fri 31 Aug, 23:00 - late Mobile Republic The Salutation Hotel and Orla Foster £6 on the door (no advance tickets) Wed 29 Aug, 18:00 - 20:00, Thu 30 Aug, 21:00 - late Wed 29 Aug - Sun 02 Sep Thu 30 Aug - Sat 01 Sep, 16:00 - 18:00 There’s Trouble At T’Mill and you’re FREE, Booking required The Inventory is a fanzine compilation all invited to make it worse. We have FREE, Drop in Through mistranslation, malfunction or of the digital artefacts produced online. assembled DJs and Pre-Js of Manchester Monetised is a performance that looks a signal of the wrong duration, this night It seeks to explore the relationship between to flexi their disc and maxxxi their mix for at how we materialize our dreams by is not just a celebration of the error itself user-generated content and the ways your lugholes. After the success of Trouble monetising specific aspects of them, but a visual and sonic manifestation of in which we digitally present ourselves - At T’Mill #1 back in April, Islington Mill invite and the difference between desire improvised mayhem. What if machines how do the images we upload, the links back Manchester stalwarts Trash-O-Rama for a better future and desire (greed) were reconfigured to corrupt ? Expect over we share and the comments we post for a second installment. This will be an all as a force and end unto itself. heated batteries, projectors chewing images enable us to subtly position ourselves night sweatbox to quench the thirst of the and sonic assaults like furniture exploding Speculative designer, Steven Ounanian as successful human beings? twilight folk, who just don’t get their fill all from the comfort of the Salutation hotel will be wearing a zoomorphic gown made from four hours of dancefloor time. Artists and staff involved in the festival entirely from U.S currency which will react rooms. are invited to share their digital worlds In two rooms over six hours your musical the punter’s financial (in)security. The data Machines by Other Means is like a house and social networking profiles for Peter imagination will be tantilised, tested & gathered from these interactions will be party gone wrong featuring Mark Amerika’s Martin and Orla Foster to reconstruct tempted. Which room tickles yr fancy? presented to economists for further scrutiny. live manifesto on glitch, Lydia Lunch’s through the methodology of a fanzine Including Hustle Beach: Wet Play/Good By inserting your credit card into a card- provocative musings on contemporary writer. By extracting the concept of Afternoon/Owain Richards - jackin house/ reader you will activate a gown made from society, squalling and spacey noise by Bo digital positioning Martin and Foster disco/hi nrg/nu disco - work up a sweat money and like a computational shaman. Ningen, Bjorn Veno’s spontaneous techno- aim to mediate this medium into a new and be ready to get wet! And Heat Packing Ounanian will simultaneously run a credit spritual performances, Oscar Lhermitte’s drill form for evaluation. District: Will Tramp!/Chew Disco/Kev Beard/ check while willing you an imagined future. machine cameras and collaborative karaoke Trash-O-Rama/Powerfrau/DJ Riv - electro/ Credits: Abandon Normal Devices and Cornerhouse devised by GLTI.CH. In true house party Credits: Abandon Normal Devices and Cornerhouse Micro Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. electroclash/techno/booty bass/hip hop/ Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. style Dee Sada will also be djing an unusual crunk/new jack swing - packing heat and collection of remixed songs and bizarre yet pounding meat! surprising duets into the early hours!
Images: This page: Top: Master/Slave Invigilator System, Bottom: Monetised. Opposite page: Top: trixie carr, Bottom: Trouble At T’Mill.
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Tactical Transmedia Stepping Into The Light Dare Fictions Jeremy Finch Girl Gang Paolo Cirio Cornerhouse Annexe Meet outside Cornerhouse Sat 01 Sep, 14:00 - 15:00 Sat 01 Sep, 12:00 - 16:00 Madlab Free, Booking required FREE, Women only, booking required Thu 30 - Fri 31 Aug, 10:00 - 17:00 FREE, Booking required Jeremy has long been a musical star Girl Gang is swagger and adventure, bluff touring the country in lead roles and doing This workshop will explore ‘cross media’ and bravado. Girl Gang is open to any bold a full year in the West End in the Producers, practices for producing fiction, such as and fearless female. Girl Gang challenge you including the principle role of Leo Bloom. ‘Transmedia Storytelling’, ‘Alternate Reality to a dare. Test your mettle. Join the Gang This seminar tells the story of how he found Games’ and ‘Dispersed Fiction,’ looking at for an afternoon of mayhem and marauding his light – both metaphorically and literally how these products are changing cinema, and come away with stories that will induce - in the strange new world of the English theatre, marketing and games through jealousy and admiration in equal measure. National Opera. Recruited as understudy Internet platforms and networked devices. Girl Gang sanctions the exploration of for tenor Toby Spence, he was told he The workshop will focus on how Transmedia different modes of behaviour via a slight would never have to actually go on. storytelling can also be used for educational change in individual perception. Extraordinary circumstances meant that and political goals, engaging people in social he did. This inspiring seminar allows the Gang members explore how a small shift change and raising awareness about real audience to join Jeremy on his exciting ride, in thought only can influence behaviour world problems, or even for psychotherapy. the day he became an opera singer, and and free self-imposed constraints. Artist Paolo Cirio, who leads the workshop, gives them the impetus to take opportunities Girl Gang investigates a range of strategies has been researching the cross media field that scare them and find greatness in for moving through the social and built for several years as a natural continuation of uncertainty that they could never find environment, delighting in taking up space his studies in theatre and film and acclaimed in experience. The audience participate and reinterpreting the lay of the land in practices in net-art and radical media through singing – and those who ‘can’t order to gain economic freedom, mobility interventions. sing’ find they can – using Jeremy’s daring and social space. principles for stepping into the unknown and finding their light. Girl Gang are ready for you. Are you ready for Girl Gang?
Salon #1 Salon #2 Salon #3 The Art Of Success The Beautiful Too Big To Fail? International Anthony Burgess Foundation And The Damned International Anthony Burgess Foundation Thu 30 Aug, 12:00 Sat 01 Sep, 12:00 International Anthony Burgess Foundation Free, Drop in Free, Drop in Fri 31 Aug, 12:00 We often have romanticised preconceptions Free, Drop in By the very essence of its competitive of artists as impoverished yet passionate nature, the Olympics brings with it a host “A good face is a letter of recommendation,” creators, but how does this work under the of failure and success for the athletes English novelist Henry Fielding wrote, monetary and social influence of collectors, and countries taking part. But what of the before going on to curse the false commercial galleries and institutions? host country? Join us for a post-Olympic recommendations of nature. This salon will Questioning the hierarchies of success debate on the cost of a successful Games. ask to what extent ‘erotic capital’ – beauty, within the cultural world, this salon will Featuring James Kennell, Senior Lecturer in good dress sense, physical fitness and sex uncover the degrees of artistic achievement Tourism and Regeneration at the University appeal – still opens doors to people that through conversations with both creators of Greenwich and the Director of the are locked to others. Should the beautiful and cultural brokers. Panel includes Economic Development Resource Centre, be damned? Or should we celebrate the artists Jennifer Chan, Zach Blas and Jennifer Jones, visiting lecturer at doctrine of ‘shake what your momma (Queer Technologies) and Brett James. Birmingham City University and coordinator gave ya?’ for #media2012, a nationwide citizen The panel includes artist, performer, media network for London 2012. director and writer Scottee and Catherine Credits: In association with #media2012 Hakim, academic and author of Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital.
Image: This page: AND Salons. Opposite page: Girl Gang.
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New Identity Residency Sweatshop Chasing Nimbus Inside/Out Happy Mondays The Hearing Test Martin Johnson Alexia Mellor Dave Lynch Fragments Rafael Rozendal Ailís Ní Ríain and Rogue Studios Project Space Thu 30 Aug - Sat 02 Sep Residency Jul - Aug International Online Andrea Pazos López Wed 29 Aug - Sat 01 Sep, 11:00 - 18:00 Free, Drop in Barrow-in-Furness & across the Northwest Ensemble Rafaël Rozendaal is an artist who uses the Online Free, Drop in Mellor Management: SweatSHOP is an Chasing Nimbus is a project that explores internet as his canvas. His work researches As part of a residency initiated in 2011 The challenge was to take on a new identity, interactive, performative installation using digital and analogue techniques for project Residency Jul - Aug the screen as a pictorial space, reverse by AND and DaDa, Irish composer and with a little help from Heath Bunting’s box humour and play to critique and subvert moving images onto clouds from aircrafts. Castlefield Canal Basin engineering reality into condensed bits, writer Ailis Ní Ríain has developed an of legal tricks from the Status project. corporate practices. Using a local business Artist, director and inventor Dave Lynch Open Boat: Sun 02 Sep, 12:00 - 16:00 in a space somewhere between animated online art project with the Spanish creative Martin Johnson took up residency and as the temporary Mellor Management has been developing his ambition to deliver Free, Drop in cartoons and paintings. In the lead up to technologist Pazos López. Both artists since then he has show a growing interest headquarters and under the guise of a multiple projections onto water vapor AND has been working with British AND festival Rozendal will be releasing a are hearing impaired and are using their in the identity of PC Mark Kennedy, an corporate consultant, Mellor will attempt canvases including urban vents, cooling Waterways over the past two years and specially commissioned animation every personal experience of hearing loss to undercover policeman who took control of a test of endurance, cycling on a bicycle towers, steam trains and clouds. Lynch this second residency sees Fragments Monday, inspired by quotes from some develop a new web-based art project his presentation of self to an extreme and attached to a small generator powering a has been developing prototypes through International Ensemble take to the canals. of the most successful people of our time, which asks users to question their perverse degree; living as an ‘activist’ called LED “SHOP” sign. After the athletic feats conversation and collaboration with a host Inside/Out explores and explodes the from Friedrich Nietzsche to will.i.am. auditory perception. Mark Stone for seven years and conducting accomplished at the Olympics, SweatSHOP of contributors including weapons experts, romantic vision of a young couple living andfestival.org.uk/events/happy-monday a romantic relationship with a female activist aims to sensitise us to the corporatisation scientists, artists, makers, pilots, sailors in a confined space. Live streaming of the To take the hearing test visit as Stone. Find out more about what Martin of sport and the failure of many companies’ and cloud appreciators. He will test one play gives viewers a realtime cinematic thehearingtest.org has done with identity at Rogue Studios labour policies through the artist’s own of his early prototypes on the urban insight into an alternative lifestyle spent Credits: Project developed through a residency programme Project Space during AND festival. physical trials. vents of Manchester during the festival. on the canals. Devised and developed by Abandon Normal Devices in partnership with DaDa whilst living on the boat itself, Inside/Out (Deaf and Disability Arts). Credits: Residency developed in partnership with Heath Bunting For more information visit andfestival.org.uk Credits: This residency is co-produced by Abandon Normal and Rogue Studios Project Space. Devices and Octopus. both celebrates and demystifies boat- Credits: Abandon Normal Devices and Cornerhouse Micro life. The artists-in-residence Fragments Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Artist’s Talk International Ensemble, will also be Mobile Republic presenting live performances to Fri 31 Sep, 14:00 - 15:00 festival-goers. FREE, Drop in For updates, showing times and performance Follow Dave’s adventures via dates, visit followinsideout.com his blog projectnimbus.net or follow @fragments Credits: Residency developed in partnership with Abandon Miscommunication A Crowded Apocalypse Normal Devices, the Canal and River Trust and the Rochdale Canal Festival. Station IOCOSE Telekommunisten Across Manchester & Online Wed 29 Aug - Sun 02 Sep Online Online Miscommunication Station is a video bridge “In the Atlantean period there were many with built-in translation capabilities that energies being used and information and allows users to communicate with each knowledge being used which were, for other while speaking different languages, particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, from the collective of media hacktavists and to prevent complete catastrophe, to venture communists, Telekommunitisten. prevent total destruction of your planet”. The app presents itself as being a David Icke, conspiracy theorist. revolutionary new technology that bridges not only space but also culture, allowing Conspiracy theories are, by their definition, people to speak to everyone in the world in neither ultimately refutable or acceptable. their native language. In order to hold true, they rely on the acceptance that the full evidence is not Disclaimer: Errors in speech recognition, reachable. They are based on a shared translation and speech synthesis, combined belief: the idea that each one of us is an with processing delays and the fact that unaware piece in a mysterious master you can only hear the synthesized computer plan. Crowdsourcing, instead, makes this voices and not the users’ real voices result more transparent. Each user contributes in a platform that allows you to communicate to the creation of something that is bigger only with great difficulty. than the sum of each singular production. Download the app from The final plan remains unknown, but is telekommunisten.net/ actively produced by a large crowd. miscommunication-station IOCOSE has been drawing on Credits: Co-commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices crowdsourcing to hijack the collective and Arnolfini. imagination. From January until June 2012, the ‘crowd’ has been assembling its own conspiracies and protesting against their protagonists and effects. http://acrowdedapocalypse.com
Credits: A Crowded Apocalypse is commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Furtherfield.
Images: This page: Top: Happy Mondays, Middle: The Hearing Test image by Andrea Pazos, Left bottom: Miscommunication Station, Right bottom: A Crowded Apocolypse. Opposite page: Images: Left top: New Identity Residency, Left bottom: Chasing Nimbus, Right bottom: Inside/Out.
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Venue List 11 Lionel Dobie Gallery Places To Eat Opening Times 14 91 Hewitt Street 01 All Saints Square Manchester M15 4GB Eighth Day Visit the festival hub at Cornerhouse Oxford Road, lioneldobieproject.com 111 Oxford Road for latest news on events, maps Manchester M15 6BH Manchester M1 7DU and ticket information. 12 MadLab 0161 273 4878 Open 29 Aug - 02 Sep 10:00 - 20:00 02 Blank Media Collective 36 - 40 Edge Street eighth-day.co.uk Blankspace Manchester M4 1HN 43 Hulme Street madlab.org.uk Deaf Institute TION ST Manchester M15 6AW 135 Grosvenor Street VICTORIA ST SHUDEHILL INTERCHANGE blankmediacollective.org 13 Museum of Science and Industry Manchester M1 7HE Booking Tickets ST MAR Liverpool Road 0161 276 9350 Festival film programme: Y’S GA CORPORA EDGE ST TE 12 03 Castlefield Canal Basin Castlefield thedeafinstitute.co.uk andfestival.org.uk/book-tickets THOMAS ST Events Arena Manchester M3 4FP 0161 200 1500 MARKET ST Liverpool Rd 0161 832 2244 Anthony Burgess Foundation OLDHAM ST HIL Manchester M3 4JR mosi.org.uk 3 Cambridge Street All other events: TIB ST TON ST LEVER ST Manchester M1 5BY andfestival.eventbrite.com
ST ANNE’S SQ 04 Charlie’s Karaoke Bar 14 National Football Museum 0161 235 0776 P DALE ST 1 Harter Street Urbis Building anthonyburgess.org Manchester M1 6HY Cathedral Gardens CROSS ST 0161 237 9898 Manchester M4 3BG Cornerhouse Prices TE BRIDGE ST 0161 605 8200 70 Oxford Street P Screenings at Cornerhouse 09 05 Cornerhouse nationalfootballmuseum.com Manchester M1 5NH Matinees (before 17:00) DEANSGA 70 Oxford Street 0161 200 15000 Full £5.50 / Concs £4 JOHN DAL DALE ST Manchester 15 Number One First Street cornerhouse.org Cornerhouse members £4.50 / £3 TON ST P PICCADILL First Street ARKER ST M1 5NH BOOTH ST Evenings (from 17:00) 0161 200 1500 Manchester M15 4FN NEW QUA TLAND ST YORK ST £7.50 / Concs £5.50 TSIDE ST P cornerhouse.org POR Y MOSLEY ST Places To Stay Cornerhouse Members £6.50 / £4.50 GAR A 16 QPark YTOUN ST Y ST CHARLOTTE ST SIDNEY ST T ST PRINCESS ST 06 CUBE Hulme Street (Across from Blank Space) Palace Hotel Livewire members NICHOLAS ST LLOYD ST 113 - 115 Portland Street Manchester M15 6AW Oxford Street (14-17 year olds) £3 anytime ALBER MINSHULL ST DUCIE ST Manchester M1 6DW Manchester M60 7HA BYRON ST For other ticket prices see guide 0161 237 5525 17 Rogue Studios Project Space 0118 971 4700 QUA Y ST cube.org.uk 66-72 Chapeltown Street, palacehotelmanchestercity.co.uk
LONDON RD TLAND ST Piccadilly 07 Gorilla Manchester M1 2WH PETER ST POR Jurys Inn 54 - 56 Whitworth Street West 0161 273 7492 Jurys Inn Manchester MOSLEY ST P STORE ST GEORGE ST Manchester M1 5WW rogueartistsstudios.co.uk Great Bridgewater St thisisgorilla.com Manchester M1 5LE MOUNT ST CHORL 17 TE P 18 The Salutation Hotel & Pub 0161 953 8888 PRINCESS ST 2 Higher Chatham Street LOWER BYRON ST TON ST 08 The Holden Gallery manchesterhotels.jurysinns.com CANAL ST Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester M15 6ED
06 HARTER ST DEANSGA P Grosvenor Building 0161 272 7832 TSON ST A Cavendish Street salutationmanchester.co.uk 13 W P LIVERPOOL RD 04 TH ST Manchester M15 6BR holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk 19 Ultimate Holding Company LOWER MOSLEY WHITWOR P 2nd Floor Hotspur House 09 Islington Mill 2 Gloucester Street OXFORD ST P DUKE ST 03 James Street Manchester M1 5QR
SACKVILLE ST Salford M3 5HW 0161 238 8523 CASTLE ST BRIDGEW ATER ST 07757 956 555 uhc.org.uk P islington mill.com FACT (Foundation for Art 05P P 10 International Anthony and Creative Technology) GREA07 Burgess Foundation 88 Wood Street HEWITT ST Engine House Liverpool, L1 4DQ T MARLBOROUGH ST ALBION ST Chorlton Mill 0151 707 4464 11 CHARLES ST 3 Cambridge Street fact.co.uk 15 19 Manchester M1 5BY CAMBRIDGE ST 0161 235 0776 10 anthonyburgess.org
HUME ST 08 02 01 OXFORD RD 18 16 For up to date information on the programme, venues and box office visit andfestival.org.uk or join us at the festival hub at Cornerhouse
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Exhibitions Fri 31 Aug Fri 22 Jun - Sun - Fri 12:00 - 18:00 The Humble Market: Trade Secrets FACT p.03 10:00 - 17:00 Talks & Workshops Tactical Transmedia Fictions Workshop Day 2, Paolo Cirio Madlab p.19 Sun 29 Aug Sat 11.00 - 18.00 10:00 - 18:00 Events Jeremy Bailey: Master/Slave Invigilator System Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 Fri 22 Jun - Tue - Sat 12:00-20:00 Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool, I’m Good Cornerhouse p.03 Sun 16 Sep Sun 12:00 - 18:00 10:00 - 20:00 Booking & Venue AND Festival Hub open Cornerhouse Thu 30 Aug - 11:00 - 18:00 United Holding Company: Clearing UHC p.05 11:00 - 13:00 Events AND Festival Tours with Jeremy Bailey Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 Sun 02 Sep 11:00 - 18:00 Artists at Work New Identity Residency, Martin Johnson Rogue Studios Project Space p.20 Thu 30 Aug - 12.00 - 17:00 John O’Shea: Pigs Bladder Football CUBE p.05 12:00 - 13:30 Talks & Workshops Salon#2 The Beautiful and The Damned International Anthony Burgess Foundation p.18 Fri 07 Sep 12:00 - 16:00 Public Realm Empire Drive In: In-car Installations Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 Thu 30 Aug - 12:00 - 17:00 Zoe Papadopoulou: Reproductive Futures CUBE p.05 Fri 07 Sep 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Mobile Republic, Digital Caravans First Street p.08 Thu 30 Aug - 11:00 - 18:00 Group Show: What have I done to (de)serve this? Blankspace p.06 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Meme Junkyard: Technoviking All Saints Square & online p.10 Sun 16 Sep (Closed Mon & Tue) 13:00 - 14:40 Screenings AND Shorts: Programme 1 Cornerhouse p.13 Thu 30 Aug - 11:00 - 18:00 Group Show: Blue Crystal Ball Holden Gallery p.06 14:00 - 15:00 Artists at Work Artist’s Talk: Dave Lynch Mobile Republic, First Street p.20 Thu 20 Sep 15:30 - 17:30 Screenings Come As You Are Cornerhouse p.12 Thu 30 Aug - 11:00 -18:00 Mark Amerika: Museum of Glitch Aesthetics Lionel Dobie Gallery & Online p.07 Sun 02 Sep 16:00 - 18:00 Events Monetised, Steve Ounanian Mobile Republic, First Street p.16 17:00 - 18:00 Events Downtime Drinks / Networking Mobile Republic, First Street Wed 29 Aug 18:00 - 21:00 Public Realm M-Blem: the train project MOSI p.10 10:00 - 20:00 Booking & Venue AND Festival Hub open Cornerhouse 18:20 - 20:30 Screenings Follow + Mutant Cinema post-screening discussion Cornerhouse p.12 11:00 - 18:00 Artists At Work New Identity Residency, Martin Johnson Rogue Studios Project Space p.20 21:30 - 24:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: Mad Max II: Road Warrior, + shorts + live performances by Tranarchy Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 18:00 - 20:00 Events Monetised, Steve Ounanian Mobile Republic, First Street p.16 23:00 - 05:00 Events Party/ Trouble at t’ Mill Islington Mill p.17 18:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: In-car installations Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 20:00 - 21:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: Opening night short films + live soundtracks Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 Sat 01 Sep 21:30 - 24:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: Robocop Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 10:00 - 18:00 Events Jeremy Bailey: Master/Slave Invigilator System Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 10:00 - 20:00 Booking & Venue AND Festival Hub open Cornerhouse Thu 30 Aug 11:00 - 13:00 Events AND Festival Tours with Jeremy Bailey Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 10:00 - 17:00 Talks & Workshops Tactical Transmedia Fictions Workshop, Day 1, Paolo Cirio Madlab p.19 11:00 - 18:00 Artists At Work New Identity Residency, Martin Johnson Rogue Studios Project Space p.20 10:00 - 18:00 Events Jeremy Bailey: Master/Slave Invigilator System Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 12:00 - 13:30 Talks & Workshops Salon#3 Too Big to Fail? International Anthony Burgess Foundation p.18 10:00 - 20:00 Booking & Venue AND Festival Hub open Cornerhouse 12:00: - 14:40 Screenings AND Shorts: Programme 2 Cornerhouse p.13 11:00 - 13:00 Events AND Festival Tours with Jeremy Bailey Meet at Slave Docking Station, Cornerhouse p.16 12:00 - 16:00 Talks & Workshops DARE Workshop, Girl Gang Meet at Cornerhouse p.19 11:00 - 18:00 Exhibitions A Dream Came Through, Lanfranco Aceti Blank Media Space p.06 12.00 - 20.00 Public Realm Mobile Republic, Digital Caravans First Street p.08 11:00 - 18:00 Artists At Work New Identity Residency, Martin Johnson Rogue Studios Project Space p.20 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Meme Junkyard: Technoviking All Saints Square & online p.10 12:00 - 13:30 Talks & Workshops Salon#1 The Art of Success International Anthony Burgess Foundation p.18 13:00 - 14:00 Exhibitions Live Performance: Ask A Teenager, Mammalian Diving Reflex Number One First Street p.04 12:00 - 16:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: In-car Installations Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09 14:00 - 15:00 Talks & Workshops Stepping into the Light, Jeremy Finch Cornerhouse Annexe p.18 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Mobile Republic, Digital Caravans First Street p.08 14:00 - 15:40 Screenings Tilva Ros Cornerhouse p.12 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Meme Junkyard: Technoviking All Saints Square & online p.10 14:00 - 16:00 Exhibitions Artist’s talk: John O’Shea National Football Museum p.05 13:50 - 15:30 Screenings All Divided Selves Cornerhouse p.11 15:00 - 16:00 Exhibitions Live Performance: Ask A Teenager, Mammalian Diving Reflex Number One First Street p.04 15:50 - 17:30 Screenings The Creator Cornerhouse p.11 16:00 - 18:00 Events Monetised, Steve Ounanian Mobile Republic, First Street p.16 16:00 - 18:00 Events Monetised, Steve Ounanian Mobile Republic, First Street p.16 16:10 - 17:35 Screenings Kid-Thing Cornerhouse p.13 17:00 - 18:00 Events Downtime Drinks / Networking Mobile Republic, First Street 16:30 - 17:30 Exhibitions Panel Discussion: Ask A Teenager, Mammalian Diving Reflex Number One First Street p.04 17:45 - 19:15 Screenings Indignados Cornerhouse p.11 17:00 - 18:00 Events Downtime Drinks / Networking Mobile Republic, First Street 18:00 - 21:00 Public Realm M-Blem: the train project MOSI p.10 18:00 - 21:00 Public Realm M-Blem: the train project MOSI p.10 19:30 - 21:00 Screenings What is This Film Called Love? Cornerhouse p.12 20:40 - 22:20 Screenings Bye Bye Blondie Cornerhouse p.13 21:00 - 01:00 Events Machines By Other Means The Salutation Hotel p.17 22:00 - 03:00 Events trixie carr: The Right to Rule + Festival Party Gorilla p.17 21:30 - 24:00 Public Realm Empire Drive-In: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then + live soundtrack + Empire Shorts Q-Park, Hulme Street p.09
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Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an Thank you to all the partners, artists, AND Festival has been funded by Legacy energetic regional festival of new cinema, volunteers without whose boundless Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from Sun 02 Sep digital culture and art and a unique energy and support we would not happen. the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic partnership between Cornerhouse and Games by funding ideas and local talent 10:00 - 20:00 Booking and Venue AND Festival Hub open Cornerhouse Abandon Normal Devices Festival Team FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Festival Manager / Producer: Gabrielle Jenks to inspire creativity across the UK. 12:00 - 13:30 Exhibitions Public Debate: Clearing UHC p.05 Technology). The festival was launched Festival Producer: Ruth McCullough in Liverpool in 2009. In subsequent years 12:00 - 16:00 Artists At Work Fragments Open Boat & Performance Castlefield Canal Basin p.20 Festival Co-ordinator: Afroditi Barmparousi it has alternated between Liverpool and Festival Media Manager: Elisa Ruff 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Mobile Republic, Digital Caravans First Street p.08 Manchester with an extended regional Projects Co-ordinator: Christina Milliare programme across Cheshire, Cumbria Project Manager: Ella Byford 12:00 - 20:00 Public Realm Meme Junkyard: Technoviking All Saints Square & online p.10 and Lancashire. Digital Projects Manager: Nick Holloway 13:00 - 16:00 Screenings Double Bill: Jouer Ponette + Nana Cornerhouse p.14 Thank you to all of our supporters, festival Touring Producer - David Gilbert friends, local business and partners. AND Programme Team 14:00 - 16:00 Public Realm Artist’s Talk: Wafaa Bilal Cornerhouse Annexe p.10 Cornerhouse and FACT team members 16:20 - 17:35 Screenings Piercing I Cornerhouse p.13 17:00 - 18:00 Events Downtime Drinks / Networking Mobile Republic, First Street 20:00 - 24:00 Screenings Optic Presents: Mockbuster Double Bill Charlie’s Karaoke Bar p.15
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WE PLAY Expo North West Closing celebration Funded by: for London 2012 07 - 09 Sep 2012 Avenham and Miller Parks, Preston As part of Preston Guild City Festival FREE, Drop in Gather in Preston for the final weekend of London 2012. WE PLAY Expo highlights c r e a t i v e include: Sacrilege, a playful interpretation e n g l a n d of Stonehenge by Jeremy Deller; Blaze Festival, an explosive mix of music, sport and urban art; Mobile Republic a convoy Programme partners: of interactive caravans and Humble Market, an immersive digital performance. Come for the whole weekend or just for a day but whatever you do, don’t miss On the Night Shift on the final night which will set the sky ablaze and fill the air with rhythmic drumbeats in this stunning spectacular. To find out more about this once in a lifetime event go to nwfor2012.com/weplayexpo
WE PLAY Expo is a co-production between WE PLAY and Preston Guild 2012. It is funded by Legacy Trust UK and Preston City Council.
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